>> speaking of the don'that, as heard, putting his life on the line in iraq for all of us admits to being gay. jumping in to his defense on that stage. asking chris hayes ahead. plus a search for susan powell, missing mom. her father-in-law arrest ford having porn images on his home computer, including one of susan powell undressed. we'll talk more about that. a lot to get to this busy friday morning. hi, everybody. i'm thomas roberts. i appreciate i don't time. right now on capitol hill, the snoot expected to vote any moment on the emergency funding bill of last night, aimed a eed overting a government shutdown keeping the bill running until november. >> the good news, most of

america has gone to bed and not witnessing the bickering and rancor evidenced in this chamber. >> i'm sure all your tea party friends are going to be very enthusiastic that for 4/10 of a percent, you perhaps changed your vote. >> luke russert joins us live from capitol hill. what are the sticking points on the house bill for the democrats who control the senate? >> reporter: all right, here. take the people through this process, tom. essentially, the government runs out of money september 30th. congress needs to appropriate money to get congress from september 30th to november 18th. in order to do that, they're not fighting about how much money the government's going to spend, like there is in the past. they're fighting now specifically about disaster relief, and how much will go into funds to replenish accounts that fema so desperately needs. fema runs out of money monday evening, is expected to. in order to have the funds put in fema's k9, republicans want

an yuf set. take off about a billion dollars a green jobs loan program, that costs about a billion, as i mentioned. democrats say, no, no, no. that's a job creator. we don't want to do that. we should not be paying politics with fema money. that's what the fight is over now. republicans holding up a gun saying we will not change our fill. there's more than enough money going to fema in our bill, immediately, in the next six weeks. this program the democrats want to defend so much is actually quite wasteful, in their minds. democrats saying, no. it's a job creator and we really don't need to bring fema funds into this discussion at all. they should be approved no matter what. and a historical conversation, whether this is right or not. the jewish new year starts wednesday. they have travel plans across the country, fund-raising constituen constituents, the whole nine yards. nobody wants to be here. the question, who blinks first? no one really knows. harry reid says they'll have a

senate vote on the republican bill last night, expected to vote that now. will they have a compromise? remains to be seen, thomas. >> luke russert on capitol hill. we're learning speaker boehner and representative eric cantor will hold a public news conference coming up. the time again? 11:15. okay. luke, thanks so much. take care. the confirmation, 11:15. we'll have that for you and follow exactly what they're saying. again, the speaker making the announcement moments ago he wants to have a press conference coming up here in about 12 minutes. another fiery republican debate last night in florida, and once again it was a battle between rivals. mitt romney an the texas governor rick perry. the two squared off letting the sparks fly over everything. from illegal immigration to social security, and the health care debate. >> the bottom line is, we never said we going to move this back to the states. >> it's differ than what the governor put in his book, just, what, six months ago. there's a rick perry out there that sang that, almost a quote,

it says that the federal government shouldn't be in the pension business. that it's unconstitutional. unconstitutional and should be rushed to the states. you better find that rick perry and get limb to stop saying that. now -- >> speaking of books and talking about being able to have things in your backs, back and forth. your economic advisers talked about romneycare and how that was an absolute bust. your hard copy book you steaid was exactly what the american people needed, to have that romneycare given to them as you had in massachusetts. then in your paperback, you took that line out. so speaking of not getting it straight in your book, sir, that is a -- >> governor perry -- >> let's bring in our experts, "washington post" editorial writer jonathan capehart and

politico expert, jim. start with you, jonathan. he didn't look presidential, rick perry, while romney shined. your thoughts? >> that seems to be the consensus coming out of the debate. damaging to rick perry. times when he looked clumsy. one of the times going on the attack in the debate. there was another moment where he talked about people who might not agree with him on allowing children of illegal immigrants in his site to have her tuition k covers. shed they didn't have a heart. rick perry needed a good day. by no means did he do better in the third debate and that alone makes romney the winner. he's the clear other person in this two-person race and wants to make the argument i'm more electable, better in debates and i'll be better against president obama and he helped make that case last night. >> that said, jonathan, mitt

romney is definitely improving on the debate stage. polling well in new hampshire. if you're in the white house and looking at this is playing out right now, who are you rooting for? >> well if you're in the white house, you're probably rooting for perry. he's someone, one, who can't see after three debates, can't seem to get his act together. two, can't seem to last beyond 30 minutes to an hour in a debate. if i were in the white house i'd ask for four-hour debates to run him into the ground. what we're seeing here is this sort of -- the republican field is in sort of two -- two worlds. in the -- in one world, rick perry is king of the hill. he's leading in the polls against mitt romney. he's the man to beat, but when you see them onstage, rick perry just does not measure up, and for me, i'm writing something about this right now, the crystallizing moment was when rick perry went on the attack calling governor romney a flip-flopper. completely flubbed it, and mitt romney used it as an opportunity to, you know, club rick perry.

he did so successfully. i think republican folks sitting at home and maybe even in the audience was looking at someone who could go toe-to-toe with president obama if he gets the nomination. >> perry got tripped up trying to be accurate in his attack and i think he confused himself. seeing conservatives buck the candidate. rick scott in florida, are republican voters more likely to go with perry or the candidate they think looks most electable? >> inclined to go with perry if they felt he could go toe-to-toe with president obama. that's why these debates are so important to him. if you think where he is, or where he looked to be a couple weeks ago, perry is much more in sync with the republican base. conservatives will buck the steebt a establishment and would like to go with somebody in the tea party genre and they also want a winner. rick perry finds himself at a

real pivotal moment in this campaign. if he continues to look clumsy, to look like he can't go two hours and can't show intellectual agility able to go after different issues he might not have talked about in the state of texas, it's going to damage him. romney's going to pound, pound, pound. he seeps weakness in rick perry. sees an opportunity to really knock him off that front-runner perch he's been 1257bd standing on and the next couple weekless go a long way in determining whether perry can regroup and fide his footing as a national candidate. to date, the answer is, he can't. >> thanks so much. and playing out on the hill this morning. executives for the solar company solyndra on the hot seat before a house committee investigating why the obama administration agreed to give the now bankrupt company over half a billion dollars in taxpayer loans, this despite big red flags the

company was in danger of going belly up. the execs previously promised to testify under oath, but this morning changed their tune. >> i've been advised by my counsel, that it is the better course for me to assert my constitutional right to decline to answer questions under the fifth amendment i. must invoke the privilege afforded by the fifth amendment to the u.s. constitution. >> public -- patake a listen to what the republican side said. >> if we have learned anything about mr. harrison, it is that until this morning he has had no problem talking about the company, and, in fact, it makes you wonder what you're trying to hide or cover up. >> it appears you knew the "titanic" was sinking and made sure you got to the lifeboats first. >> solyndra left taxpayers holding the bag for $535 million guarantee and we still can't get oonss.

answers. >> our capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell joins me now. not just from the hill are we hearing this talked about, take a listen to what michele bachmann had to say at cpac. >> vice president joe biden said this about the loan guarantee program for solsolyndra. this is exactly what the stimulus program was all about. greed and corruption. >> kelly, this company was the poster child for the president's green jobs agenda. how much is fact finding and how much is political grandstanding? >> reporter: a combination of both, thomas. one of the reasons solyndra is in the cross hairs is because the president visited the company, the department of energy backed it and it got a lot of support from the administration at a time they thought it presumably was a company that could have an impact in the industry.

some of these executives before them today had come and made personal visits here to capitol hill toll assure members the company was in good financial shape right before getting that $535 million loan guarantee from the government, and then it went bell e y up only a week later. they feel mislate. a lot of anger. part of the reason they decided to use their fifth amendment right. frustration the taxpayers were on the hook for this money but aren't getting answers. in some ways the humiliating experience of bringing the ceos and heads in front of the spotlight with the questioning and trying to keep pressure on certainly for the administration as well. thomas? >> kelly o'donnell on capitol hill. thank you. a senior analyst and a policyshop.net. nice to see you this morning, doctor. you point out on your blog that

the green is under attack, basically. take a listen, though to what one republican lawmaker said just last night. >> what the previous gentleman did not say is that solyndra received $500 million, because they have friends in high places, despite even people in this administration that said, don't do it, they received $500 million. if that was in a different country, we wouldn't call it waste. we would call it corruption. >> so how much damage has solyndra done, doctor, when it comes to the greens job movement? is this something that can't be turned around? >> no. i definitely don't think it can be turned around. the hearings will show two thing. one, that the administration actually didn't do wrongdoing. this loan was begun under the bush administration. they raised a billion in capital and invited to the

administration to apply the loan. the tech, top company in 2010 and the fooact is clean energy r dollar creates three times as many jobs as fossil fuels. the second thing the hearings will show, this is politicking and grandstanding and they really are not interested in job creation. >> how can the white house turn this around? >> focus on the issue of clean energy investments create jobs, and we're really behind the curve when it comes to this. especially with a country like china, investing much more than we do. they export 95% of the products they produce. we're already behind the curve. the fact is we need to increase our investment and not get detracted by this kind of politicking. >> doctor, thanks for your time this morning. appreciate it. so the bush era, no child left behind law, as we know it may be history. president obama changing the face of that program for good. what it means for your school, next. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables?

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welcome back, everybody. breaking news this morning. a palestinian man shot dead in a clash with israeli soldiers and settlers. they burned and uprooted trees in a southern village in the west bank. israeli soldiers arrived on the scene and fired tear gas at the crowd. clashes are breaking out all over the west bank and the president, abbas, prepares to deliver a request at the united nations. abbas is scheduled to speak before the general assembly shortly. the u.s. has been leading efforts to avoid a dramatic showdown at the u.n. over the statehood issue saying statehood can only come as a direct result of know,s.

benjam benijamin netanyahu will delive an address just after the president speaks. and an emergency funding bill narrowly passed by the house late last night in the hopes of keeping the government running into november. keeping the lights on. we'll follow that. this as opposed to spending cuts and disaster coverage. we'll watch and see how that vote comes down. wall street facing more possible losses after the dow plummeted 320 points pap drop as recession fears loom. on track for the worst week in almost three years. as we look at what the boards are doing today, it's in positive territory for the moment with green arrows. the wall street sell-off yet was due to fears of the europe pen debt crisis and concerns the fed is running out of tooling to

avert and economic slowdown. keep seeing deep drops around the world and particularly in europe, ron insana. where do we go from here when we take into consideration the euro zone running out of speed? >> the big risk. the fact this morning's six greek banks said they're downgraded by a ratings agency. concerns about the solvency of french and german banks who hold a lot of that greek debt, italian, spanish debt, irish and other peripheral country debts that are going bad. so there's a lehman-like worry about europe now. if we have one of those moments it will usher in a double dip recession. that's the fear. circling the wagons, a friend of mine says here, around the levels of august. it's been nominally successful this morning. >> are the banks over there going to be able to do what needs done to stay off the

crisis? especially when we take into account how weak the american companies have been? >> differentiate. american banks ever may not have taken steps to shore up from the 2008 crisis. now a european debt crisis on top of that. very much unenlightened leadership in europe right now when it comes to handling the situation. i was talking to an expert about this yesterday who suggested that if the french and germans, the governments of those two countries, should shore up their own banks, it may be a way to let greece go with having minimal impact on the banking system and limiting the contagion. it's a wide open question, thomas. we don't know what's going to happen. not a lot of clarity around it. here at home, in washington, getting spending bills passed in washington. this gridlock is brutal and not helping wall street. ben bernanke appears to be the only adult and the only game in town, despite what critics say.

>> ron insana, nice to see you. >> thank you, thomas. this sunday, "nbc nightly news" anchor brian williams will hold his second annual teacher town hall on msnbc. watch it here live from noon to 2:00 p.m. eastern time. it kicks off a series of education nation events live from rockefeller plaza right here in new york city. and last night, president obama unveil add plan to revamp the bush era no child left behind policy. the administration allowing waivers for states of the law if they accept certain reforms. >> the goals behind no child left behind were admirable, but experience has taught us that in its implementation, no child left behind had some serious flaws. we're going to let states, schools and teachers come up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to compete for the jobs of the future. >> nbc's mike viqueira joins us live from the white house this morning. mike, this plan bypasses congress, which many republican

lawmakers are ang sgri aboprett about. >> reporter: it's going around congress because they're frustrated with congress and the president made that point today. he says that congress has had, since 2007, when the original authorization for no child left behind expired, to do something about it. they haven't done anything about it. the president said a couple of times, i will do something about it. thomas, many of our viewers and anybody with kids, this is the time of year to go to the parent/teacher conferences, the back-to-school nights, find out how your kids are doing. coming up in the next weeks or months. if you've been to one of those, you almost heared teachers gripe that they don't like the no child left behind. they feel it ties their hands with creativity as teachers. many teachers i've talked to and even president obama mentioned weren't of the most frequent criticisms that's developed over the years in no child left behind. that is that teachers teach to the test. the standardized tests that are mandated by the department of

education here in washington, to the states around the country. weren't of the strange things about this law is that the nea, the teachers' union, one of the most prominent in the country, and republicans in congress both agree that the law has to be revamped, and especially both say the federal government needs to offer more flexibility. that, of course, is whatted presidethe president was saying today. the president said another complaint. history and science have taken a back seat to plath and other subjects when it coming to teaching because of no child left behind and some schools lowered standards so they're not penalized for not meeting the standards that they have set and, therefore, face penalties from the federal government or eventually closure. the president today announcing his plan, going around congress. doing this by his own order saying he's going to give the states more flexibility to develop their own standards. >> mike viqueira. thanks so much. a programming note.

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we're watching that vote this morning, and also expecting to hear more this morning from eric cantor as well as from speaker boehner. holding their press conference right now. let's listen in. >> it is the worst flood in the history of northeastern pennsylvania. i toured for the last week with my neighbors and my friends as they took their life the possessions and dumped them on the sidewalk. sat on a porch and watched grown men cry. young men cry. as in the kitchen, i was in the kitchen of a woman who told me in the last six months she lost her husband, her son and now everybody she owns. when disaster hits anywhere on this world, the united states is the first to come to help, and now disaster has struck americans, and sunday night we stopped helping these people. i'm going to ask everyone,

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my question is under one of your presidencies do you intend to circumvent the progress made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military? >> what would you do with soldiers like stephen hill? now he's out. >> what we're doing is playing social experimentation with our military now. sex is not an issue. it should not be an issue. leave it alone. keep it to yourself whether you're heterosexual or homosexual. >> boos from the debate after hearing from a service member protecting our nation, followeded by that response. everybody failing to thank him for serving our country. just the latest in the series of strange crowd reactions and candidate responses in these republican debates. let's bring in chris hayes. the host of "up with chris hayes." what is your reaction?

the audience response, especially last night, on the heels of the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. bravely, courageously, this person fighting in iraq submits that question. publicly asks it of the panelists. you know, the gop hopefuls, and s santorum nets his response. >> first, i would like to know -- she jacked. overwhelmed, when i was watching. seriously, i don't think -- i don't want to be unfair. hard to tell pap crowd of 1,000 people. how many in that room. how many are booing. didn't sound like a ton. the more disturbing thing, the applause to rick santorum's answer, a defense of the policy. fundamentally, of the policy repeal ed repealed. the defense of a discriminatory policy. because he realized how oesous

odious it could be he said i wouldn't kick them out. >> grandfathered them in now. >> it was a missed opportunity for a lot of people to stand up because they love to stand up and support their military support and funding for the military. this was a missed opportunity. >> i absolutely agree. so-called social issues truths. right? the kind of tea party version of the republican party post-obama not playing the culture war card. you see time and time again, the base is very hung up on cultural issues. invested in all of stuff invested in at the beginning of the decade. >> i get off all of these things many of these candidates would rather build a time machine and go back in time to where we had you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. it's just kind of ridiculous. >> i also thought interesting about the responses, he seemed

to imply there is no sex in the armed forces. basically saying, this is -- everybody should be -- >> nothing happens on shore leave. >> nothing happens in the armed forces. really? have you talked to to any members who served? >> been to fleet week in new york? move on to rick perry talking about his performance. some are critical about the fact you could literally see smoke coming out of his ears at certain times when crafting digs towards mitt romney? >> yeah. a fairly halting and bumbling performance, more or less. again, i'm not the intended audience. i'm never quite sure how things are playing to the people he's speaking to versus me. when perry managed to bungle the one set piece pre-teed up attack on romney for flip-flopping. had it on index cards and bumbling, reading off it. i was sympathetic, too, because i have buffed up lines i'm

trying to read. it epitomizes he's not quite ready for primetime in that regard. >> trying to stick it to somebody, in the high stakes games they're up to, those are the moments, you go big or you go home. >> exactly. romney was able to get his digs in and romney set up an interesting dynamic. one issue to get to the left of rick perry, which is social security. appeal to independents. try to make perry look unelectable and now he's set himself up where he can go to the right of rick perry which is immigration. and romney's really pandering red meat answer to the dream act, signed in texas allowing children of illegal immigrants, kids who came here when they were young to go to state schools. a fairly humane piece of legislation. romney set himself up, a nice kind of chessboard where he can

play the pieces simultaneously. >> draw him right in. we mentioned cpac. governor romney speaking this morning. take a listen to this. >> my prend rick perry said if you don't agree to the in-state tuition to illegals you don't have a heart. i think if you're opposed to illegal immigration, it doesn't mean that you don't have a heart. it means that you have a heart and a brain. >> a lot of "wizard of oz" reference there's. that's going to work for romney. the drum beat he's putting out. >> with the base particularly. the rick perry moment, here's an eminently sensible bipartisan just and practical piece of legislation that was indefensible in front of the republican base. no matter what he said he wasn't going to be able to defend it. you could see the delight for mitt romney, always tagged as

sort of a soft squish as conservatives say. someone who's not really in the right-wing camp. the delight he has this issue to bang this conservative drum. >> and what's coming up for the weekend? >> this weekend we are going to be talking about troy davis' execution. talking about the president's new -- his quote on thursday. warrior from the middle class, wear that with a badge of honor. reverend jesse jackson jr. >> and i've brought out this pastry tray. watching so many guests, musical claires for muffins, because not everyone was going to get one. i wanted to give you one. >> we will gladly accept these and i'm glat the muffin train happen become an iconic. >> it is. we will surran wrap that and have it ready for your guests tomorrow. appreciate it. thanks so much. again, make sure to watch chris tomorrow, "up with chris hayes" every morning on

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troubled economy has been hitting young adults pretty hard. among those aged 16 to 29, the kren is figures slow just 55% had jobs compared to 67% in 2000. nut figu the new figure is the lowest since the end of world war ii. as president obama urged congress to approve his jobs plan he's looking at small businesses to play a major role in jump-starting this economy. more than $250 billion in that proposal will go towards tax incentives for small businesses to spur hiring. tax relief took center spach ta >> over the course of the last decade is to lower the tax burden on the small businessmen and women. >> having had a job in small business and in big business i know what you have to do to make america the most attractive place in the world for business. >> i think you earn every dollar. you should get to keep every dollar that you earn. that's your money. that's not the government's

money. >> i'm joined now by a chief economist at the national federation of independent business. bill, nice to have you with us this morning. let's get straight to it, because new york city mayor michael bloomberg says he's giving thousands of dollars to new york business to help train workers. do you believe local programs like that one could work on a grander scale around the country? >> well, certainly training is important, but we also need some reason to hire people, and right now the big problem we have is just weak sales. we don't need tax breaks, we need customers to get the hiring done out there and, of course, that's the problem that we have. consumer spending is terrible. housing, of course, is in the ditch, and not growing at all. so that's really the issue for jobs is having customers, not tax breaks. >> bill, take a look, when we talk about president obama's plan. looks to cut the payroll tax and do so in half for 98% of businesses.

so how far will those tax incentives go in spurring businesses to hire? >> well, let me put you in a position of being an owner. you've got ten people working for you. pay them $30,000 each. you get about $9,000 tax credit. that's money in your hand, but you didn't hire an 11th worker at $30,000 because you didn't think they could bring enough value to the firm with weak sales to pay for themselves. that's a losing deal. getting this tax break is not going to change whether or not this particular worker will bring in enough value to pay. so you'll keep the money and worry about, use that to help keep your business going over the next six months, because 41% of the small business owners in the survey think business conditions will be worse six months from today. >> you're saying 9 grand for each additional employee? correct? >> no, no, no. that would be three percentage points of a $300,000 payroll,

which is what you have. ten workers -- >> i get you. >> okay. that's what you get with that. there's another provision, the $4,000 credit. so that would lower the hurdle for this person from 30k to 26k, but it's only temporary. you know? in a few months that person's back on your pay roll at $30,000. they have to be worth that. of course, this whole thing is supposed to be financed by a permanent increase in your taxes. it's a very iffy deal for owners. what they need is customers. even expensive labor will be hired if there are people that need to be taken care of. >> a report by the u.s. small business administration shows small businesses created 65% of all new jobs in the past 17 years. how is the president's jobs plan being receiveed by employers you've been able to talk to? are they worried about keeping up that 65% rate? >> well, they'd like to hire and create jobs, but, again, they need a reason to. one out of four of them say that weak sales is their top business problem.

but unfortunately, 36% say taxes and bad regulation is their top business problem, even in this bad economy. so they can do it. obviously, those 400,000 workers that were laid off last week weren't laid off at big firms. they were laid off at small firms. they're the ones that grows and creates the jobs. we have to have the economy pick up, give us a reason to hire and we're doll it. >> william dunkelberg. if there's a story you want us to cove, tweet me at thomasaroberts, we may use it in one of our upcoming segments. headlines topping the news right now. president obama's 2012 campaign office in l.a. was vandalized last night. several windows smashed and police say bebe pellets were found on the ground. the oft was staffed at the time, but nobody was hurt. so far no arrests made. president obama is due to visit l.a. on monday during a campaign

fund-raising swing through california. and a strange twist in the case of a missing utah mother. susan powell. her father-in-law, stephen powell, arrested on charges of voyeurism and child porn. police say during their investigation of susan's disappearance they found thousands of indecent images of susan, other women and young women combined in his home in seattle. video and pictures taken without the victim's knowledge. susan powell vanished nearly two years ago from her home in utah. her husband josh says she disappeared why he and their two sons were on a camping trip. today is the day that a six-ton piece of space trash comes barreling down or evening. it's been slowly falling toward our planet since 2005. now, the odds that a piece will hit someone are currently at 1 in 3,200 but not in north

america. we'll continue to see exactly where it will land though. is it possible einstein wasn't that much of an einstein after all? now doubts about his theory of relatively and lady gaga vowing to make bullying a crime. i'll tell you who she plans to discuss that topic with next. [ male announcer ] if you're only brushing, add listerine® total care for more complete oral care. ♪ it works in six different ways to restore enamel...

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breaking news on palestine from the united nations. the secretary-general's office says the president has submitted his letter to the secretary-general officially requesting that his application for statehood to be made to the security council. this action is the first in the very long process here. ultimately the palestinians would need 9 of 15 council members to vote for it if a vote is finally scheduled. that means the u.s. would then have to decide whether or not they would use their veto. if only eight members supported the statehood application it

would be defeated and no veto would be needed. the u.s. strategy is to get this side tracked by having the council submit it to a committee for study, which then would make it take weeks or possibly even months to resurface. lady gaga so outraged over bullying in this country she wants to bring her concerns to president obama and she's got nearly 14 million twitter followers to help make that happen. sending him this tweet. i'm meeting with our president. i will not stop fighting. this must end. our generation has the power to end it. trend it. hash tag make a law for jamie. the jamie she is talking about is a 14-year-old boy from new york who talked online in a video about being bullied over his sexuality. he then committed suicide earlier this week. no word yet from the white house if lady gaga is going to get that meeting or not. time for the flip side and our look behind the headlines for you. albert einstein may be rolling over in his grave thanks to a startling new discovery that

could up end physical laws as we know them today. scientists at the european center for nuclear research measured particles traveling faster than light which is supposed to be impossible. that's according to einstein's theory of special relatively. that's famous m equals mc squared. einstein's theory has been the basis of physics research for the last century so if these really can beat the speed of light it would not only poke holes in his legacy, it would reshape our whole understanding of time and space. einstein himself said breaking the kcosmic speed limit would open the door to time traveling. scientists around the world are looking for experimental mistakes to disprove it. if they can't, maybe some day they'll be able to tell einstein all about it in person through

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